Three main points before getting to the substance. [213 page opinion HERE]
#1) It was a 4-3 decision. Meaning it was the politics of the court, literally the political makeup and perspective therein, that determined the outcome of the decision. This is showcased in point #3, which is the funniest part.
#2) The entire framework of the case against Trump in the Colorado decision is predicated on this: “[the complainants] asserted that he was ineligible under Section Three because he engaged in insurrection on January 6, 2021, after swearing an oath as President to support the U.S. Constitution.” [pdf, page 6] REMINDER – President Donald Trump was not charged with “insurrection,” is not accused of “insurrection,” does not fit the complaint under the definitions of “insurrection,” and has never been found guilty of insurrection. The complaint is moot before the court. But hey, it’s Lawfare… and we all know Lawfare is created for public media consumption, so that takes us directly to the biggest point.
#3) Instead of me writing it, let me screengrab it so we can all laugh together [pdf page 9].
Wait, what?
Yes, that’s correct. As long as President Trump appeals the decision to the Supreme Court, the appeals court stays their own ruling – essentially indefinitely. The Colorado primary ballots printed, and the primary election will be over, before the Supreme Court puts this on their docket.
In addition to the virtual guarantee the high court will overrule this political nonsense, SCOTUS can make the entire issue moot before them by following their own normal schedule for submissions, arguments, deliberation and opinions delivered by the court.
The Colorado appellate court knows this, that’s why they put this self-stay into their 4-3 ruling. It’s a politically correct way of giving the optics of telling their tribe, ‘hey we’re with you,’ without the ramifications of the political backlash. In other words, psychological lawfare stuff – intended for media consumption.
Making the issue that much better for Donald Trump, the efforts of the Prescott-Bush clan (look it up – they live in CO) will backfire bigly. The public backlash against a judicial ruling that interferes with the right of the citizens to determine their own election candidates plays perfectly into the sunlight operation against the Lawfare left.
This backlash will be epic, albeit hidden by MSNBC and the rest of the insufferable media. Why? Because it doesn’t fit the Lawfare narrative.
I’m not even going to highlight the nonsense from the leftists who are in a frenzy over this one. Just smile, pretend it’s the end of the world, eat your favorite foods and live your best life while trying not to laugh. Seriously, this is just that level of goofy.
Remember what I said about Ron DeSantis in 2022, and everyone looked at me funny. Well, this is way more predictable than me saying DeSantis will collapse in sunlight.
That said, Vivek Ramaswamy is not silly, and he sees a great opportunity.
VIA TWITTER – This is what an *actual* attack on democracy looks like: in an un-American, unconstitutional, and *unprecedented* decision, a cabal of Democrat judges are barring Trump from the ballot in Colorado. Having tried every trick in the book to eliminate President Trump from running in this election, the bipartisan Establishment is now deploying a new tactic to bar him from ever holding office again: the 14th Amendment.
I pledge to *withdraw* from the Colorado GOP primary unless Trump is also allowed to be on the state’s ballot, and I demand that Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie, and Nikki Haley to do the same immediately – or else they are tacitly endorsing this illegal maneuver which will have disastrous consequences for our country.
Today’s decision is the latest election interference tactic to silence political opponents and swing the election for whatever puppet the Democrats put up this time by depriving Americans of the right to vote for their candidate of choice.
The 14th Amendment was part of the “Reconstruction Amendments” that were ratified following the Civil War. It was passed to prohibit former Confederate military and political leaders from holding high federal or state office. These men had clearly taken part in a rebellion against the United States: the Civil War. That makes it all the more absurd that a left-wing group in Colorado is asking a federal court to disqualify the 45th President on the same grounds, equating his speech to rebellion against the United States.
And there’s another legal problem: Trump is not a former “officer of the United States,” as that term is used in the Constitution, meaning Section 3 does not apply. As the Supreme Court explained in Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (2010), an “officer of the United States” is someone appointed by the President to aid him in his duties under Article II, Section 2. The term does not apply to elected officials, and certainly not to the President himself.
The Framers of the 14th Amendment would be appalled to see this narrow provision—intended to bar former U.S. officials who switched to the Confederacy from seeking public office—being weaponized by a sitting President and his political allies to prevent a former President from seeking reelection. Our country is becoming unrecognizable to our Founding Fathers. (read more)
I mean, c’mon man. Have we forgotten when Trump won the Colorado primary in 2016, and the delegates all promised to vote for Ted Cruz at the convention anyway.
The Colorado GOP is Prescott-Bush. Nuf said!
This is all silly Lawfare.
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Colorado Supreme Court violates the constitution itself
Republican, Abraham Lincoln was taken off the ballot by democrats in 1860. On April 12th 1861 the Civil War began.
I think this is what they want, let’s not give them this gift. Let them stew in their own juices, let them rant and rave at each other ad nauseam.
We are voting for Trump whether he is on the ballot or not. Ballots need to be dropped from the sky like confetti, all with his name on it. We can create chaos too just not the kind they want.
Several states don’t allow write ins, but I’m sure if they see his name written on them anyway there will be panic.
I don’t think in 1860 you were “on” or “off” ballots. Ballots were printed and distributed as “tickets” by parties. It’s true in parts of the south Republicans in 1860 had it hard or impossible to distribute their tickets. Though in S Carolina the state legislature directly voted for electors.
Having lived there for over two years in the early ’70s, I’m here to tell you that Colorado has been on the long slide to Hell for over two decades but which has now become glaringly obvious to even the most casual observer of its politics. Denver has been at the center and now rivals Portland and Seattle in the contest to make San Francisco seem almost normal. How and why did this happen? It actually began in the late ’60s when (according to a prominent member of the Coors family) Reagan chased the hippies out of California–half went to Oregon and the other half to Colorado. But what has really changed the state is the more recent influx of Left-leaning techies, potheads (recall it was the first state to legalize pot), and idle inherited wealth. Last I knew, Denver had a declared member of the Communist Party on its city council. And now, here is an interesting story about one of the State SC justices with a family business connection to Soros and China:
https://www.worldtribune.com/uncle-of-colorado-justice…/
There was a specific well funded plan from the 1980s to 2010s by Leftists to “Turn Colorado Blue.” It was analogous to what “Replacement Theory” aims to do to the entire USA.
“That transformation, partially driven by changing demographics, also was spurred by a small group of wealthy Colorado liberals who have poured millions into local elections since 2004. The successful strategy became known as the “Colorado Model,” and Democrats are working to export it to purple and red states. It’s part of an ambitious plan to build permanent Democratic majorities across the country.” https://www.coloradopolitics.com/news/cover-story-blue-state-blueprint-how-democrats-are-trying-to-build-a-national-majority-from/article_51187536-d552-11e9-bc4d-17c541b82c02.html
It’s not a bad plan because in the end they’ll all be stuck in their own “shitty states” of their own making with nowhere to run to, serves them right.
Ok so is the federal supreme court going to counter this or will there be a civil war?
Unless I missed it, I can’t believe that most people on this thread, including Sundance, haven’t cited an obvious error in the process as explicitly written in the US Constitution. The argument against Trump is “[the complainants] asserted that he was ineligible under Section Three because he engaged in insurrection on January 6, 2021, after swearing an oath as President to support the U.S. Constitution.” If words truly matter in law, then the statement against Trump is factually and constitutionally incorrect. Trump, as President of the United States and unlike all other government officials and military, etc., did not take an oath to support the Constitution.
Article II of the Constitution has the specific words of the President’s oath: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” The word “support” does not appear in the Presidential oath. Article VI says all other government officials “shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution.” The President’s oath is specifically different from all other officials.
Which means the Colorado justices, who did swear to support the US Constitution and the Colorado constitution, violated THEIR oaths.
“Colorado’s Supreme Court ruled January 6th was an insurrection based on the testimony of
@ericswalwell” …
Attention all deep state nitwits. Just in case you’re monitoring this website and what I write, which I don’t doubt you are, I am not, repeat, not advocating violence, get it dumbasses?
What I am doing is making an observation and predicting what I think will happen. I cannot know for sure since omniscience is hard to come by, but this is my prediction having studied the history of the left or communism. Heck, I’ve lived through much of it, Mao, Castro, the Berlin Wall, Pol Pot, Trudeau, Obama, Biden, etc. So here’s my observation and prediction.
The observation: the democrats, the communists in our government, have pushed and pushed and pushed with relentless aggression culminating in the current zeitgeist – an America in total decline in virtually every area where right is wrong, up is down, and degeneracy and perversion and statist government is held to be the norm. This is crammed down the throats of Americans daily without pause.
The prediction: since nothing ever stops a leftist except force, ever, and meeting violence with violence and stopping them with superior force is the only alternative, since reason and arguments fall on deaf leftist ears, there will be blood in the streets. Indeed, one FOX commentator said that the left has never actually seen a righteously pissed off Republican. Let alone a genuine conservative who is backed into a corner with no place left to go. The Left just won’t let sleeping dogs lie.
There will be blood.
“………the left has never actually seen a righteously pissed off Republican.”
On the contrary, we see them all the time. They are the ones that stomp their feet in a hussy fit, and then threaten with high pitched squeaky voices to write a sternly worded letter opposing perceived injustices. And then nothing ever comes of it. Wash, rinse, repeat.
It’s the pissed off conservatives that the left has not yet dealt with.
I fear you are right. I pray you are wrong. Once that bridge is crossed there is no going back.
The judges ought to be impeached, and disbarred. If you are a conservative in Colorado, can you get a fair trial?
Don’t dismiss this as the bad joke it appears to be. I smell a set up:
Sure SCOTUS will over turn it, or at least they should, but who knows what they will order Roberts to do? And all he then has to do is lean on K-man and ABC to get a 5-4 or a 6-3 decision to keep Trump off the ballot.
But let’s assume SCOTUS “does the right thing” and it goes 6-3 to overturn this, but will it be for the “right reason”?
They should just throw this out as laughable and mock the state court as idiots.
But instead they will probably treat it as a serious question and decide that the state court was “PREMATURE in their ruling since Trump has not been CONVICTED of anything yet”.
Then once they get a bogus conviction on anything related to J6, the state courts (plural at that point) can point to the SCOUTS decision and say, “Well, he’s convicted now, so take him off the ballot!”. Sure Trump will also appeal those “decisions” (orders?), but if it is all timed right, it will be just before the GENERAL election ballots are printed (not the primary ones, that was just part of the set up) and/or just before the GOP convention (so there can be a floor fight about getting Trump DQ’d as the nominee).
This is why DeSantis and Haley are fighting so hard to be #2, because they have a plan for getting #1 out of the way.
And if none of this comes to pass, it still ties up part of Team Trump fighting it. It’s basically a freebee for the bad guys. Sure it makes us madder, but we are already mad, so what do they care how mad we get? We only vote once and follow the rules, so our level of anger does not scare them. The only time they will get scared is when we stop following the rules like they did long ago.
HOW the SCOTUS overturns will be important. If they rule broadly it should shut down all other States’ schemes to manipulate eligibility and might even shut down all the legal cases against Trump. If SCOTUS rules narrowly or just overturns without comments then all those cases can still continue and even more can pop up.
President Trump has not been charged with insurrection
Correct! And yet the Colorado State SUPREME Court has effectively ruled that he is already guilty of it – no charges, no trial, etc. “Their” side only follows the laws and rules when it helps them, “they” ignore (or at least bend and twist) the laws and rules when it doesn’t help them. “Our” side (ha! like we have a “side” in the uni-party!) follows the rules (or at least makes a show of trying to) even when it hurts them. We are LOSING a war because of the constraints we have put on ourselves, not because the enemy is stronger, smarter, etc. The longer we allow and put up with this situation, the longer it continues.
Well said, after initialing laughing it off I think suspicious caution is warranted on reflecting and reading some other opinions such as yours.
Look at the players involved behind this lawsuit ala CREW such as Noah Bookbinder who sits as an advisor to DHS with close ties to the administrative state regime and formerly of re-election campaigns, the federal elections commission, chief counsel for senate judiciary committee. etc etc… just an all around deep state critter and not one of the useful idiot types. David Brock and Norman Eisen are on CREW as well and as much as they suck, aren’t dummies and have had plenty of success in lawfare tactics.
I think plot is get ruling that can be used for future shenanigans, whether it be actual removal after later charged, lots of media and propaganda, or just piss off folks to point of doing something that can be used as justification to react to.
Good read:
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-deep-game-co-strikes-trump-off
They’ll say his 4th amendment rights were violated, just like in the case of Smith in DC. Kicks the issue until after the election, delaying all further scrutiny from them. Why? Because citing the 4th amendment, simple due process is the easiest, low-hanging fruit they can go with without delving into specificities of the case. 80% of the country will agree because the people still believe in the system, even though the people at the wheel are rotten to the core.
Lawfare yes, doomed to fail yes, but it all soaks up real money, time and energy to fight. It is like how Hamas can launch volleys of unguided rockets to draw very expensive Iron Dome interceptors. Or how the Houthis can send swarms of $2000 Iranian suicide drones that the US Navy shoots down using $2M missiles.
i don’t trust ramaswampy either. He’s a smooth talker. don’t tell me he wouldn’t take advantage of the situation if he could.
Trump Disqualified From Colorado Ballot by 4-3 Judicial Ruling | SYSTEM UPDATE #202
By Glenn Greenwald
20 Dec 2023
https://rumble.com/v42dziu-sustem-update-show-202.html
OMG, I just heard from Jordan Sekulow that there are republican attorneys in keeping Trump of the ballot. He really needs to GET RID OF RONNA!
She hasn’t said a damn thing about any of this.
Intended to be a domino in the cascade of demented blue states to parrot the insanity. All these indictments/charges are illegitimate, all based on contorted application of laws – sometimes state laws automagically elevated to federal prosecutions, and many others completely fabricated. Doesn’t matter to the democrats their goal is to taint jury pools, turn “get whitey” toward civil war. I’m secure my God is fully in control, we win.
Thanks for pointing out this info on page nine SD. Almost no one else is talking about this.
NOT A “NOTHING BURGER”! Colorado Trump Ruling EXPLAINED – Pure MENTAL GYMNASTICS! Viva Frei Vlawg
By vivafrei
20 Dec 2023
https://rumble.com/v42fwib-not-a-nothing-burger-colorado-trump-ruling-explained-pure-mental-gymnastics.html
Another take on this not being foolish or something to laugh at, but rather a well thought out machiavellian scheme:
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-deep-game-co-strikes-trump-off
When I got it I just had to laugh. They’re jerking off their own people, too funny!